Nils Kjaer famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two stamps with which he marked the books. One said: 'Does not agree with the Koran - heretic, must be burned'. The other said: 'Agrees with the Koran - superfluous, must be burned'.
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It is those who get lost, who find the new ways.
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Everyone praises the views you get from mountain tops, but no one talks about the views that they block.
-- Nils Kjaer
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
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Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus.
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The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
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Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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Actually, all paths lead away from the truth...how's that? All paths. There's no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth's already here, where are you going?
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The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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